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- 2017
- Working Paper
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier...
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-021, September 2017. (Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, Heidi Tworek (2018).)
- August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in West Africa
By: Aldo Musacchio and Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business and Government Relations;
Crime and Corruption;
Emerging Markets;
Africa
Musacchio, Aldo, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in West Africa." Harvard Business School Case 718-011, August 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Northern Lights: Even Hammer and the Norwegian Enlightenment
Reinert, Sophus A. "Northern Lights: Even Hammer and the Norwegian Enlightenment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-054, December 2016.
- October 2016
- Technical Note
Sovereign Wealth Funds
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Julie Kheyfets
Reinert, Sophus A., and Julie Kheyfets. "Sovereign Wealth Funds." Harvard Business School Technical Note 717-003, October 2016.
- October 2016 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Going Rogue: Choson Exchange in North Korea
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Dawn H. Lau and Amy MacBeath
In mid-2015, the Singapore-based CEO of Choson Exchange Geoffrey See pondered his next move. He had founded Choson Exchange as a non-profit in 2009 to further female entrepreneurship in North Korea by providing business and legal training in the isolated country. Now,...
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Reinert, Sophus A., Dawn H. Lau, and Amy MacBeath. "Going Rogue: Choson Exchange in North Korea." Harvard Business School Case 717-015, October 2016. (Revised October 2017.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe
As the itinerant wizard (technically one of the Maiar, if not the Istari) Gandalf wrote to the then domestically-inclined hobbit Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “Not all those who wander are lost.” Indeed, as the recent brouhaha over the...
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Reinert, Sophus A. "Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-005, July 2016.
- 2016
- Chapter
Achtung! Banditi! An Alternate Genealogy of the Market
Reinert, Sophus A. "Achtung! Banditi! An Alternate Genealogy of the Market." Chap. 12 in Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic Reasons of State, 1500-2000, edited by Philipp Robinson Rössner, 239–295. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- 2016
- Book
Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the...
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Patalano, Rosario and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 2016
- Chapter
Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics
Reinert, Sophus A. "Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics." In Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, edited by Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert, 112–142. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 2016
- Introduction
Introduction
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Rosario Patalano
Reinert, Sophus A., and Rosario Patalano. "Introduction." Introduction to Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, edited by Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert, 1–11. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 2015
- Chapter
Wars and Empires
Reinert, Sophus A. "Wars and Empires." Chap. 28 in A Companion to Intellectual History, edited by Richard Whatmore and Brian Young, 402–416. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- November 2015 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
East Timor: Betting on Oil
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Dawn H. Lau
Reinert, Sophus A., and Dawn H. Lau. "East Timor: Betting on Oil." Harvard Business School Case 716-003, November 2015. (Revised August 2017.)
- Article
The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression
The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his...
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Reinert, Sophus A. "The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression." Horror Studies 6, no. 2 (October 2015): 255–282.
- April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth
The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system...
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Keywords:
The Great Divergence;
Modern Economic Growth;
Empire;
Disruption;
Economic Growth;
Values and Beliefs;
History;
Globalization;
Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 715-039, April 2015. (Revised October 2019.)
- March 2015 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Indonesia—Unity in Diversity
Reinert, Sophus A. "Indonesia—Unity in Diversity." Harvard Business School Case 715-035, March 2015. (Revised November 2017.)
- Article
The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism." American Historical Review 120, no. 1 (February 2015): 61–97.
- December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Bhutan: Governing for Happiness
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest...
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Reinert, Sophus A., Thomas Humphrey, and Benjamin Safran. "Bhutan: Governing for Happiness." Harvard Business School Case 715-024, December 2014. (Revised May 2019.)
- 2013
- Chapter
Rivalry: Greatness in Early Modern Political Economy
Keywords:
Political Economy;
Mercantilism;
Early Modern Britain;
Economic Systems;
Government and Politics;
Great Britain
Reinert, Sophus A. "Rivalry: Greatness in Early Modern Political Economy." In Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire, edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind, 348–370. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.